Brettski - 25 feet from the water is all that is required on Fill? I design Engineered Septic Feilds in SE Michigan and we can't even get within 50 feet of the water on native ground let alone fill. At least around here septic fields placed on fill tend to fail at the point where the fill meets the native ground. If I understand your project correctly, that would be at the shoreline of the pond. Prior to filling does the ground slope to the pond site or away from it? I tend to agree with PFF except that I would even entertain the addition of a small effluent pump. They don't use much electricity, have a good track record as far as longevity goes, and would allow you to place the field a significant distance away. I am also curious what they call a perimeter drain. If this is a drain placed around the outside of the septic field to lower the existing ground water, doesn't it have to have an outlet? (pond) If so, and the field fails, isn't that more or less a direct connection to the surface water? What is the cleared area to the right being used for?
